A concert at St Mary's
This afternoon I attended a concert at St Mary's church, Ickworth. Hexacordia early music ensemble were performing Music for a Golden Queen.
The music was wonderful, interspersed with an outline of Queen Elizabeth I's life that drew on poetry and letters of the time Hexacordia had a range of gorgeous Renaissance instruments and a lovely soloist. Listening to the concert while sitting in a medieval church and watching the light fall onto the mellow old stone and woodwork definitely added a frisson to the experience. And best of all I thought to take an inflatable cushion, so I was able to focus on the music and the ambience without being distracted by my gluteal discomfort.
Afterwards I visited the nearby Walled Garden with its sustainable flower meadow* for a few minutes. i made a short video of a poppy dancing in the breeze but it's distorting when I upload it. Here is a static photo instead.
* We aren't allowed to call it a wildflower meadow because it has been sown, so it isn't wild in any meaningful sense.
The music was wonderful, interspersed with an outline of Queen Elizabeth I's life that drew on poetry and letters of the time Hexacordia had a range of gorgeous Renaissance instruments and a lovely soloist. Listening to the concert while sitting in a medieval church and watching the light fall onto the mellow old stone and woodwork definitely added a frisson to the experience. And best of all I thought to take an inflatable cushion, so I was able to focus on the music and the ambience without being distracted by my gluteal discomfort.
Afterwards I visited the nearby Walled Garden with its sustainable flower meadow* for a few minutes. i made a short video of a poppy dancing in the breeze but it's distorting when I upload it. Here is a static photo instead.
* We aren't allowed to call it a wildflower meadow because it has been sown, so it isn't wild in any meaningful sense.